Community & Youth Work Studies

Question: Drawing on your knowledge of a specific multi-professional and inter-agency partnership, analyse the current context for practice for professional youth and community workers.

You should analyse organisational and management cultures which support or inhibit partnership in practice and present one ethical dilemma, which challenges you as a professional youth and community worker.

(This essay will present the ethical dilemma of the Police working alongside Burnage High school predominantly focusing on the unequal partnership. In addition to this, I will be analysing certain cultures, which arise in inter-agency working using Burnage High School as a case study, and finally I will begin with analysing the current context of youth and community work.)

Answer: Working with young people and/or community work has always had a strong...

Question: What are the strengths and limitations of 'Plan, Do, Review' models in relation to reflective practice and critical campaigning in youth and community work?

You should use either an historical or a contemporary example of campaigning in this essay and critically analyse the potential for the youth and community worker/project to act as enabler and/or ally and/or advocate.

(The example that this essay will focus will be the role of the youth worker as an ally regarding the campaign for ‘Dudley Mosque’. Dudley Mosque was campaigning to gain permission to expand and build a new mosque to fulfill the demands of the Muslim population in Dudley.)

Question: ‘The role of the community worker is fraught with tensions and dilemmas.’ Discuss this statement, illustrating you answer with examples from practise (your own or from literature) where appropriate.

Answer: In Britain in the 21st century, community workers are often linked with...